The recently-signed Labor Department Order on "endo" sets new rules and boundaries for contractualization. Workers' groups say they will use these rules to assert their rights in labor disputes, even as they continue to work for the complete abolition of contractual work.

The unemployment rate during the Aquino administration slightly went down — but it's still the highest in southeast Asia. CNN Philippines tells us how incoming president Rodrigo Duterte plans to solve the problem.

Some of the country's economic leaders believe that the Aquino administration has been successful in driving the Philippine economy upward over the past five years. In a year-end briefing of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), Socio-Economic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said the Philippines' annual growth average is at 6.2 percent since 2010.